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Home | Recipes | Seasons | Winter | Page 3

Comforting & Cozy Winter Recipes

Winter has a singular talent: It can make even the most ardent DoorDash fan want to turn on the oven and cook. (I think it’s evolutionary. Shorter days + hibernation mode = comfort foods.)

And Braised Pork Shoulder with Chorizo and White Beans is the answer. It spends hours in the oven doing all the work while you take full credit. Having people over? Braised Pork in Red Chile Sauce
has just enough swagger to make guests think you have a side gig as a sous chef. When it’s Tuesday, you’re frozen through, and dinner needs to happen before you start eyeing the bag of tortilla crumbs as a legit meal, my Blue Cheese, Sausage, and Walnut Pasta and this 3-Ingredient Mac & Cheese are your support group.

And because no winter meal should ever end on a sensible note, there’s Basque Cheesecake with Pomegranate Molasses—burnished, creamy, and just dramatic enough to earn an audible gasps. (I shan’t say it’s better than sex, but… it is up there!)

A green plate containing sweet potato puree, topped with 2 pieces of short rib. A Dutch oven is beside the bowl with more short ribs.
Two and a half bacon fat peanut butter cookies on two stacked green plates with a stack of cookies in the background.

Bacon Fat Peanut Butter Cookies

45 mins

Nine banana muffins with white wrappers.

Banana Muffins

45 mins

A black bean mushroom burger topped with onions, sauce, and purple leaves.

Black Bean and Mushroom Burger

45 mins

Four Brie and bacon jam crostini

Bacon Jam

1 hr 45 mins

A red Dutch oven filled with beer-braised chicken with root vegetables on a wooden surface.

Beer-Braised Chicken Thighs

1 hr 15 mins

An apple tea cake on a wire rack with three slices cut from it and one on a blue and white plate.

Apple Tea Cake

3 hrs

A scoop of big batch caramelized onions on a wooden spoon.

Big Batch Caramelized Onions

7 hrs

A white bowl filled with blue cheese, sausage, and walnut pasta with a fork resting on the side of the bowl.

Blue Cheese, Sausage, and Walnut Pasta

30 mins

An all-butter pie crust laying in a pie pan with a rolling pin beside it.

All-Butter Pie Crust

2 hrs 20 mins

Golf-ball size cheese balls with pretzel stems sitting on a wooden cheese board.

Blue Cheese Balls

2 hrs 30 mins

Fish fillets on a sheet pan with roasted tomatoes and black olives.

Baked Fish with Tomatoes and Olives

45 mins

Two glasses of bacon bourbon with strips of cooked bacon in each glass and a bottle of bourbon in the background.

Bacon-Infused Bourbon

12 hrs

Two pouches of baked mushrooms in foil packets with a bowl of greens and another bowl of quinoa on the side.

Baked Mushrooms in Foil Packets

40 mins

Bite-size bacon and cheese scones with smoked bacon and melted Asiago on top on a parchment-lined baking sheet.

Bite-Size Bacon and Cheese Scones

45 mins

Six Alabama muffin biscuits in a muffin tin.

Alabama Muffin Biscuits

45 mins

A cookie sheet with six breakfast cookies with oats, banana, figs, and peanut butter.

Breakfast Cookies

1 hr

Cast iron pot with braised new potatoes inside.

Braised New Potatoes

30 mins

Five classic brioche rolls on a wire rack, three in metal tins, two removed from the tins.

Brioche

4 hrs 30 mins

A white bowl of braised saffron carrots on a piece of burlap on a wooden table.

Braised Saffron Carrots

35 mins

A black pot filled with chunks of beef Raj curry, topped with cilantro, nearby is roti Indian bread

British Beef Raj Curry

1 hr 15 mins

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